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Rejlander, Oscar
English (b. Sweden, 1813-1875)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Homeless
PUBLISHED TITLE: Night in Town

ca. 1860
albumen print
20.2 x 14.9 cmm.
Museum Purchase: Miller-Plummer Fund
GEH NEG: 34952
84:0081:0001

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Jones, Edgar Yoxall. --Father of Art Photography. O.G. Rejlander 1813-1875.-- Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1973. pg. 79.//
Stephanie Spencer. --O.G. Rejlander Photography as Art.-- Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1981. Fig. 21.//
Sobieszek, Robert A. --Masterpieces of Photography from the George Eastman House Collections.-- New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. pg. 183.//
This image was part of GEH's 1998 submission (the testbed edition) to AMICO (Art Museum Imaging Consortium).//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Images of Excellence", US, NY, Rochester January 1 - April 26, 1987. (Traveled).//
"Language of Light: Masterworks from the Collection", US, NY, Rochester January 25, 1991 - March 22, 1992.//

INSCRIPTION: mat recto-(signed in ink by artist) "O.G. Rejlander" (in ink) "Homeless" (in pencil) "KTX/-8/79C" mat verso-(five individual albumen landscape images)

NOTES: Catalogued 4/85, RAS/PB, updated 11/96, MAP. Five prints, 84:0081:0002-0006, mounted on back of mount. Alternate title listed in Stephanie Spencer, "O.G. Rejlander. Photography as Art", Ann Arbor, UMI Press, 1981, Fig. 21. Spencer discusses this photograph as a pair with "A Day in Town". See also 81:1791:11 for similar subject with urchins. This photograph was reproduced in "The Photographic News", Oct.8, 1886 Another possible title for the picture is "Poor Jo" (see E.Y. Jones, pp.26-27).

SUBJECTS:
portrait, child
allegory, homelessness

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